May 24th came too quickly. Our 4-week trip was up. It was time for us to leave China and return home. We left with mixed feelings. We were anxious to get home and to see our family and friends, but we were sad to leave the people that we had gotten to know. All of my blog has had to be about the city of Qingdao, but our readers were the important part of our trip.
Our readers have a place in our hearts. After having read with each of them every day for four weeks, we became close to them. We were interested in them as individual people with names and backgrounds and futures, not just as numbers. Our desire is for them to continue to study and to learn, especially from the important book that we shared with them as we were helping them to improve their English. I wish that I could tell you more about each of them and show the pictures of each one. I would like for you to know them, too. And, thanks to the support of many of you, those readers got to know more about the things that we all hold dear.
Ron and I read for a total of 248 hours during our time in Qingdao. We count that time as a real privilege! If anyone reading this blog wants more information about our trip or others such as this one, please let us know.
I am not very good at blogging everyday life, so there may not be much, if any, posted for a couple of months! Come back in September for scenes from Dakar, Senegal, West Africa------another Let's Start Talking trip!
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